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universal Deluge, united with a Biographical Portraiture
of the Patriarchs, and an examination of their respective
characters and conduct. The historical department
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and subversion of nations, and exhibits the fulfilment of
prophecies contained in the old Testament; particularly as
they relate to the Jews; evincing the connexion of Divine
dispensations, during 4000 years; 2nd edit.
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Footnotes:
In the 31st page of Sir Frederick
Morton Eden’s Appendix to the State of the Poor, it appears
that in 1426, a hay horse, for the Prior (we may suppose of prime
quality) cost £1 6s. 8d. and a colt 4s. 6d. And in
the year 1448, page 34, the hay of one acre was estimated at
5s.
Weirde, is derived from the
Anglo-Saxon “wird;” i.e., fatum, or
deafinie, and is used in this sense, in Hollinshed.
Ballie is a material designation
in Scotland, agreeing in rank with that of Alderman in
England.
Vol. vii. p. 496, 497.
Vol. vii. p. 712.
Vol. viii. p. 286.
Vol. ix. p. 82, 83.
Vol. ix. p. 278, 279, 280.
Since writing the above, a
friend has informed me that Norwood is now inclosed, and has
ceased to be a rendezvous of Gypsies.
Vol. ix. p. 554, 555.
Frederick Smith, of Croydon,
Surry.
Vide Crabbe’s Poems.
See No. 104, Sunday School
Tracts.
The benevolent Jonas Hanway took
a Gypsey boy into his family, for the purpose of making an
experiment, but the result has not come to the knowledge of the
author.
At page 691, is a Vignette of
Gypsies washing gold in Hungary.
Samuel Tuke, Author of a
Description of the Retreat, &c.
